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Show News Notes It's a Privilege to Live In UTAH LOGAN Changing of the name from the Cache, Morgan, Summit and Franklin Cunty Peagrowers association, as-sociation, to the Utah-Idaho Canning Can-ning Crop Growers' association, was affected at a meeting of the members, recently at the courthouse court-house in Logan. SALT LAKE The Community Chest budget this year will be about 168 000, or $13,000 more than that required In 1929, it was announced recently by Huge B. Anderson, executive exe-cutive secretary. Campaign headquarters head-quarters for the chest will open Boon at the Newhouse hotel. PROVO Exceptionally mild, fine weather prevailing in Utah during the past week has resulted already in an appreciable swelling of fruit buds and appearance of early grasses grass-es on many sunny slopes, according accord-ing to a reprot issued by J. Cecil Alter, federal metorologist. COALVILLE Chairman W. O. Stephens on the Summit county commission announces that all the necessary right of way for the improvement im-provement of the road from the Morgan county line to the Henefer flats in Summit county has been purchased and that the right of way in Morgan county is also ready. OGDEN Prospects for a good season in the sugar beet industry are bright says General Manager H. A. Benning of the Amalgamated Sugar company, who arrived In Og-den Og-den recently from Denver. He says that 40,000 acres will probably be contracted for this year, which will be 400 acres in excess of last year. SALT LAKE A near record for February warmth in Salt Lako was established when the mercury Toce to 65.3 degrees at 1:30 p. m. in the official thermometer atop the Boston Bos-ton building. The temperature on the down-town streets, sheltered from wind, rose to an even higher figure. OGDEN A half-mile strip of road just east of Morgan is to be changed chang-ed to eliminate a sharp curve, says B. J. Finch, district engineer of the United States bureau of public roads, who has received plans for the re-alignment of seven miles of highway from Morgan to Henefer flats in Weber canyon. PARK CITY The Park Galena Mining company's mine at Keetley, Wasatch county, operated in 1929 at a net loss of $21,456.16, it was shown in the financial statement filed recently with the state board of equalization. The company reported re-ported a gross yield for the year of $42,565.72, compared with total operating expenses of $64,021.88. PROVO All-Utah hoopsters defeated de-feated Provocations, 61 to 28, to win second half honors in the B. Y. U. Liniment league here last night. Pigskins defeated the Faculty, 44 to 40, while the Utah County Five beat the AU-Americans, 39 to 38. All-Utah and Faculty clash in a playoff series February 24 and 27 PARK CITY Utah is the greatest great-est producer of all five most important im-portant metals, including silver, copper, lead, gold and zinc, and every encouragement should be given to the further development of the mining- industry in this state, W. Mont Ferry, managing director of the Silver King Coalition Mining company, to the members of the chamber of commerce. LEHI In cooperation with the local lo-cal Lions club, the Utah Pickle company, with headquarters and plant in Salt Lake, is endeavoring to sign for 125 acres of cucumbers in Lehi, if possible, for next fall's run. The officials of the company have agreed to take every available acre, and to handle no other cucumbers cucum-bers but Lehi's if sufficient acreage acre-age can be secured. CASTLEDALE Improvements on Emery comity roads during 1930 will cost $165,000. Construction of the Green River-Woodside road will be the largest unit in the program. It will be built with federal aid, and will cost $145,000. Approximately $20,000 will be spent on a new road south from Ferron, which will eliminate elim-inate the present dangerous dug-way. dug-way. It will be built with state and uouniy iunus. LOGAN According to J. H. Wat-kins, Wat-kins, who is in charge of the branch office of the state auto license bureau bu-reau In Logan, 1000 passenger li-censes li-censes and 250 plates for trucks were issued the first fifteen days of February. The car owners of this section still have two weeks to obtain their licenses, According to the number of last year's plates issued, is-sued, there are approximately 2500 more to be sold. TOOELE The specdeu-up maintenance main-tenance program, promised by the state road commission, in accord with the suggestion of President Hoover, by the representation of Governor George II. Dern, is already al-ready under way. The commission is advertising for graveling preparatory prepar-atory to oiling the Victory highway near Lowe pass, in Tooele county between Timpie and Knolls. Some 10 miles of this highway will bo covered with three inches of crushed gravel of maximum of ona Inch. |